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...The building of the tower of Babel, too tall with its top in the heavens, is a symbol for human overreaching....
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...At the time of their design, the voids in place of the Twin Towers were criticised for their emptiness, and there was much support for the towers being rebuilt....
...In her head, she converses with Hitler and Freud, and seems to believe that she — transformed into a human plane — destroyed the Twin Towers....
...OMA’s Eagle + West in Greenpoint, with its weird twin towers — the cantilevered blocks of one getting counter-intuitively fatter towards the top — is undeniably striking....
...After Young shot himself in The Towers in 1958, his widow demolished the house and replaced it with a giant neoclassical mansion....
...The Glasgow outpost is housed in a staid-looking red sandstone former warehouse built in 1908, but inside boasts a similar maximalist decor, with hand-painted gold-embellished de Gournay wallpaper, twin...
...The arch acts to link the cathedral and the opera house, the city’s twin architectural poles, slicing through the historic fabric but creating a fantasia of commercial desire....
...The example I remember most vividly was back in 2001, just after two planes crashed into the Twin Towers in New York....
...The remarkable-looking Bisiluro “Twin Torpedo”, competed in the 1955 24-hour race at Le Mans, resembling a souped-up catamaran hull on wheels....
...Then, on the morning of September 11 2001, she was late leaving for work; on seeing two planes fly into the twin towers on TV, she impulsively turned off her phone and left her life behind....
...But in the shadow of its giant twin gantry cranes, activity has returned with maintenance, repairs and the fabrication of equipment for oil rigs....
...The cautionary tale is the City’s transatlantic twin, Wall Street. Trading floors have gone, business has moved midtown and bank towers are now luxury residences....
...Tall towers rose ahead of us, windows gleaming in the late afternoon sun, some a dozen storeys high and embellished with portholes and angular terraces....
...towers, its double deck of columns, its apostles and evangelists balanced giddily on top....
...Inside them stand grand palazzos, loggias, a Venetian-style clock tower and a fountain guarded by snarling Venetian lions in the square....
...The American psychologist Jack Saul, who had children in primary school near the Twin Towers during the September 11 2001 attacks in New York, writes about collective recovery from trauma....
...Or asking his cousin Ziad; or my mother’s twin, Biba, or her husband Erik....
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...The 10-month-old had been playing with his twin brother in the grass at Moscone Park in a quiet enclave of San Francisco....
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